Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - We Learn Nothing - The Downward Spiral of Dumbness

“The truth is, there are not two kinds of people.  There’s only one: the kind that loves to divide up into gangs who hate each other’s guts.  Both conservatives and liberals agree among themselves, on their respective message boards, in uncannily identical language, that their opponents lack any self-awareness or empathy, the ability to see the other side of an argument or to laugh at themselves.  Which would seem to suggest that they’re both correct.

Let me propose that if your beliefs or convictions matter more to you than people—if they require you to act as though you were a worse person than you are—you may have lost perspective.”

Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing


“A sociopath is one who sees others as impersonal objects to be manipulated to fulfill their own narcissistic needs without any regard for the hurtful consequences of their selfish actions.”

R. Alan Woods


"I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil.  I think I've come close to defining it: a lack of empathy.  It's the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man.  Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy."

G. M. Gilbert


“The downward spiral of dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.”

Hunter S. Thompson

Stocks were higher today.

As was the Dollar, gold and silver.

The price of oil went higher as Trumpolini reportedly urged the Saudis and Russia to get together and cut production. Yay!

The only thing that seemed to go lower is the IQ of the discourse of the nation.  Thank you Fox, MSNBC, and Talk Radio.  And the usual internet suspects.

Other than that it was the same old.

Get right, sit tight.

Have a pleasant evening.

Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - 20% Survival Rate For Those On Ventilators - Good to the Last Drop

“In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true.

The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness."

Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism


“The mob believes everything it is told, provided only that it be repeated over and over. Provided too that its passions, hatreds, fears are catered to.  The grosser, the bigger, the cruder the lie, the more readily is it believed and followed.   The mob has no memory; needless to pretend to any truth: the mob is radically incapable of perceiving it: the mob can never comprehend that its own interests are what is at stake.”

Alexandre Koyré, Réflexions sur le Mensonge


"You are of your father the devil, and your will is to fulfill your father's desires.   He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand with the truth, because there is no truth in him.   When he lies, he speaks from his own character— for he is a liar and the father of lies."

John 8:44

Stocks took a deep turn down today on the realization that we can't print our way out of everything.

The Dollar rallied, and the usual games were played with gold and silver and their related investments.

Governor Cuomo today noted that those who are placed on ventilators have about a 20% survival rate.

I am sure there will be a study from some business funded think tank that says if the survival rate is that low, then we should not bother with all the expense of building and procuring them. Better to put that money to work on tax cuts and bailouts.

You know, like the moneyed interest funded campaign to quit all this lolly-gagging and get back to work.

Bailouts for the rich, the virus for the rest.

"A thriving upper class accepts with a good conscience the sacrifice of untold human beings, who, for its sake, must be reduced and lowered to incomplete human beings, to functionaries, to instruments."

Friedrich Nietzsche

But hey, it's all good.    Good to the last drop.

Have a pleasant evening.

Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - Comex Gold Market Gone Off the Rails

"Disaster will overtake you,
and you won’t be able to charm it away.
Misfortune will descend upon you,
and you won’t be able to buy your way out.
A catastrophe will strike you suddenly,
one for which you are not prepared."

Isaiah 47:11


"With tears in my eyes I tell you now that some may be lost, forever.   For their own desires are the god that they worship. They boast with pride about things of which they should be ashamed. They think only about the privileges and glories of this world. But we now belong to heaven."

Phillipians 3:19-20


"Those among the fortunate rich who are not, in the rigorous sense, damned, can understand poverty, because they are poor themselves, after a fashion; but they cannot understand destitution.   Capable of giving alms, perhaps, but incapable of stripping themselves bare, they will be moved, to the sound of beautiful music, at Jesus’s sufferings, but His Cross, the reality of His Cross, will horrify them.  They want it all out of gold, bathed in light, costly and of little weight; pleasant to see, hanging from a woman’s beautiful throat."

Léon Bloy

Get right.   Sit tight.

I would like to say that after all this I have finally seen everything, heard everything, every excess of alternative facts.

There is worse to come.

This is nuts.

Have a pleasant evening.

Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - Stocks Rally - New Look to Comex NY Warehouse Report

Stocks were in rally mode today, catching a new round of sugar highs from the Fed's hot money bazooka and the bailouts recently signed into law.

Gold and silver were off a bit. The Dollar was higher.

there is a new look with some new categories in the Comex NY warehouses. This is to facilitate the inclusion of 400 oz. bars.

Have a pleasant evening.